Maggie Thatcher dies today

As a minors son I can say without a shadow of a doubt I never liked her. She put the same taxes on the rich and the poor,after being strongly advised off her back benchers not to do so. She closed all the mines,docks and steel works for a few lousy quid that never benefited the poor at all,killing good working men with unemployment and desroying families in the mean time. She give the order to the navy to annihilate a ship that Britain sold to them(Argentina),that was out of danger to our arsenal and heading back home,just so she would get votes in a re election. Peaceful strikes(at the time) of unemployment was met with brutal force to anyone that were later described as "Evil Police Brutality"..

There's a small part of me that admired her somewhat. She really was the "Iron Lady" when it came to the Falklands War and protecting that little Island. She was a strong leader and I can admire her balls for that,but she was a cruel soul that understood decades later that she did wrong,it was far too late of course. Millions of people have prayed for this day for years, but to me I don't feel anything for her,just pity. There you have it. Thatchers gone!!!.

As a minors son I can say without a shadow of a doubt I never liked her. She put the same taxes on the rich and the poor,after being strongly advised off her back benchers not to do so. She closed all the mines,docks and steel works for a few lousy quid that never benefited the poor at all,killing good working men with unemployment and desroying families in the mean time. She give the order to the navy to annihilate a ship that Britain sold to them(Argentina),that was out of danger to our arsenal and heading back home,just so she would get votes in a re election. Peaceful strikes(at the time) of unemployment was met with brutal force to anyone that were later described as "Evil Police Brutality"..

There's a small part of me that admired her somewhat. She really was the "Iron Lady" when it came to the Falklands War and protecting that little Island. She was a strong leader and I can admire her balls for that,but she was a cruel soul that understood decades later that she did wrong,it was far too late of course. Millions of people have prayed for this day for years, but to me I don't feel anything for her,just pity. There you have it. Thatchers gone!!!.

As I said in the Obit forum, to say that I strongly disliked her would be an understatement.
She was an enemy of the working class, and her enthusiastic oppression of self determination in Northern Ireland will never be forgotten.
I do not celebrate her passing, but I will not mourn her.
I am happy Nelson Mandella, whom she considered a terrorist, will out live her.

As I said in the Obit forum, to say that I strongly disliked her would be an understatement.
She was an enemy of the working class, and her enthusiastic oppression of self determination in Northern Ireland will never be forgotten.
I do not celebrate her passing, but I will not mourn her.
I am happy Nelson Mandella, whom she considered a terrorist, will out live her.

I'm not. I wasn't in South Africa back then & neither were you.
In the context of that countries history he is no terrorist by my analysis.
Apparently you feel differently. Are you a supporter of the former South African regime?

I'm not. I wasn't in South Africa back then & neither were you.
In the context of that countries history he is no terrorist by my analysis.
Apparently you feel differently. Are you a supporter of the former South African regime?

No. Racism is bulls---.
The fact that you or I were not in South Africa (prior to our births) is inconsequential.
He organized bombings against the old regime.
No different than Taliban blowing up Americans right now.
By definition, terrorists use the threat of violence to force the opposing party to their will.
American rebels did that against the British.
Terrorism is the weapon of the oppressed. It can yield significant change with minimum effort.
Not hard to understand, really.

Well the analogy of American troops in Afghanistan is a bit different from South Africa.
We invaded Afghanistan. The ANC didn't invade they're own land, but I think I get your meaning.
Is it fair to say we are disagreeing on word usage?
I do not consider him a terrorist.
I do get the idea of terrorism as a tactic but feel it implies the other side is either a victim or are being attacked without just cause.
I could more readily agree that war as a rule is terror, but singling out Mandela as a Terrorist, especially considering the brutal & reprehensible regime he was opposing smacks of approval for said government.

Again - no approval whatsoever. Racism resides somewhere between idiotic and evil. And Mandela is a true story of redemption. He later became a unifying force for peace and reconciliation. But unlike "Mahatma" Gandhi who proposed peaceful solutions to racial conflict in South Africa in the early 20th century, Mandela started out more radical and then mellowed with age to a more positive and effective means of change.
I'm not singling out Mandela as a terrorist. I'm merely stating that later redeeming actions do not rewrite history. The previous pope was in the Hitler youth. Becoming pope didn't alter that either. I'm all about full historical disclosure without sugarcoating.

Again - no approval whatsoever. Racism resides somewhere between idiotic and evil. And Mandela is a true story of redemption. He later became a unifying force for peace and reconciliation. But unlike "Mahatma" Gandhi who proposed peaceful solutions to racial conflict in South Africa in the early 20th century, Mandela started out more radical and then mellowed with age to a more positive and effective means of change.
I'm not singling out Mandela as a terrorist. I'm merely stating that later redeeming actions do not rewrite history. The previous pope was in the Hitler youth. Becoming pope didn't alter that either. I'm all about full historical disclosure without sugarcoating.

No. Racism is bulls---.
The fact that you or I were not in South Africa (prior to our births) is inconsequential.
He organized bombings against the old regime.
No different than Taliban blowing up Americans right now.
By definition, terrorists use the threat of violence to force the opposing party to their will.
American rebels did that against the British.
Terrorism is the weapon of the oppressed. It can yield significant change with minimum effort.
Not hard to understand, really.

She was awesome. Breaking unions, facing down Communism with Reagan, cutting her nation's unemployment rate from something like 13% to 5%, strong response to the Argentine invasion of the Falklands, pulling back ruinous regulations and taxes to revitalize UK private sector. During her term UK pulled back from the brink of international irrelevancy. She even dodged a (typically) cowardly IRA assassination attempt that killed a bunch of bystanders. I don't claim to be a British politics expert, but so far the criticisms I've heard on here are from specifically impacted political special interests who seem pissed because they lost. I'm sure people have plenty of specific beefs with her (such is the nature of politics) but dancing on her grave is petty and silly, and causes you to pretty much instantly lose and credibility you may have lent to otherwise legitimate points.